#autistic genius

[disabledgenius2ereality]

Please stop Pitting Disabled people against each other “Intelligence Measures” and “functioning.”

Gifted/Genius Disabled folks don’t have to be put against folks with IDD and Vice versa.Especially not by Other disabled people.

The truth is both Gifted/Genius folks and folks with IDD have value and face different sorts of oppression.

All these scales are is a measure of Perception of intelligence not actual intelligence.

Gifted/Genius Disabled folks are Fetishized and overworked.

Folks With IDD are disrespected, and under appreciated for their contributions.

This Shit is HURTING US.

If you go into a Disabled cultural space there’s a wide range of folks with a wide range of needs.One need isn’t more or less valuable than the other.

Sometimes I get Angry and Sad I lived most of my life not knowing I was Gifted as where I live doesn’t have a gifted program so they never needed to test me…

I remember feeling safer with my peers and I mean My Disabled peers. In our spaces we didn’t have to worry about getting picked on… so when I was fully mainstreamed I remember asking …..why am allowed to be in NT classes when my other friends with the same diagnosis are not?

The answer was “because you are not like those Autistics.”

This again made me sad. I was like those Autistics we are all one community and shouldn’t be divided by how Nuerotypicals want to perceive us.

The real difference was in access to comfortable learning materials not being provided. As well as ignorance on disability

Folks with IDD are still parts of our communities and both folks with IDD and Genius fall on two opposite sides of how Nuerotypicals perceive our intelligence

Meaning both our communities would need adjusted coursework to make our minds comfortable and safe.

This isn’t being done for folks with IDD we don’t use comfortable and easier to process language or have options that are comfortable for processing vs heavy text.

We are all Disabled if you can’t accept Folks with IDD you shouldn’t be using the contributions of Disabled geniuses because we are all from the same Disability community.

So when you insult one of us or fetishize one of us you hurt all of us

[disabledgenius2ereality]

It bothers me the way society

Have benefited from Disabled people, Nuerodivergent people, and Mentally ill people.Yet can constantly disrespect or erase parts of these peoples stories when it suits them

Let’s Use Van Gogh for an Example as I think about him a lot

Vincent Van Gogh

Was Schizophrenic ,Autistic, had Major depression, and had Addictive tendencies.

If we like Vincent Van Gogh as an artist

We should want the following things as we would’ve wanted it for him;

•Respect and Full Acceptance of Schizophrenic Folks

• Challenging the narrative that certain Nuerodivergences or Mental Illnesses “Make.” People violent. This is Beyond false.

•Only 10% of Murders are committed by Mentally ill people the other 90% well …. (Nuerotypical.)

^ this matters false narratives on mental illness lead to social exclusion and High suicide rates in our communities.

•We should want whatever can help folks with Addictive tendencies survive and not be shamed for a literal medical condition.

•Full Respect for Developmentally,Physically,Invisibly and Intellectually disabled minds and bodies.

• Meaning we trust Disabled folks and treat them like adults trusting their lived experiences

Etc.

So how can we benefit from the work of Nuerodivergent Individuals (Including Disabled BIPOC who make up 50% of all police killings?)And yet allow for the mistreatment of those in society in the same position as the people we consider “Beloved.” Or “Iconic.”

We disrespect Autistic/Disabled Individuals in three ways

•We assume that they are not equally as intelligent and undervalue their ideas, thoughts,feelings and existence.

•NT society assumes only The only way a person with a Disabillity, Nuerodivergence ,Mental illness is important is; if they contribute to Consumerism/mass Production, they can be used as an inspirational object or an object of Pity or we only value them if we can compare them to savants and geniuses

Folks who are just existing are valid no person needs to meet conform or colonize into Eurocentric social skills in order to meet your criteria for societal acceptance and the expectation that you need to “Understand.”/ “Make sense of” People is putting undo stress on folks.

Example

Look up life expectancy of folks with different Nuerodiversitys

It’s all too young to sentence a community to death by forcing them to meet unnecessary standards,

Lastly

you fetishize Disabled And Autisric Geniuses but over demand our productivity exhaust us.

Then you disrespect our requests regarding work we do

Example of this disrespect

Einstein told you NOT to use the atom bomb

Yet America used it anyway

Too many people died from work that wasn’t intended to be used and was specifically requested not to be used

If you want to fetishized disabled and autistic geniuses do not weaponize us for you’re eugenics based narrative.

All our disabled peers are equally as valuable as us and you disrespect All of us when you disrespect them you cannot pick and choose which members of our communities you deem of value

We are all Valuable.

If you treat our work as valuable then you must treat us and our communities/cultures that way as well

[disabledgenius2ereality]

I am making this blog to challenge many ideas regarding IQ human value and Eugenics

I am an Autistic woman I was diagnosed at around 5 years old and I grew up going to social groups and events with my Disabled peers. I was bullied badly in school for being different called the R slur. Told my ideas had no intellectual value or contribution ,because I was disabled.

It got to me enough I felt like I wasn’t “Smart.” Or “intellligent.”

I found out at the age of 21 that I am one of 0.5% of the population that counts as 2E twice exceptional meaning Disabled and Gifted. I also found out that I am a Genius further than that….

My first reaction to this as a person who grew up Autistic and Among my peers with IDD, Developmental Disability, Physical disability and invisibles disability.

My first reaction was guilt… I for the longest time had convinced myself I wasn’t something of Intellectual value based on how bad I was bullied.

To find out that medically speaking I actually was made me feel guilt and sadness. The very same IQ that says I count as a Genius says my peers in Social Skills Groups and Disabled spaces are lacking productivity and intellectual value. This bothers me a lot.

As there are two Ideas used in medicine law and society that are social constructs and do not exist/ cannot be measured:

Intelligence or IQ

Cannot actually be measured

Especially for 2E folks like me who’s “IQ” has significant stagger making a true estimate nearly impossible.

There are many different kinds of Intelligence all with merit Gardeners theory of multiple intelligences highlights this.

IQ is heavily based in western Eurocentric knowledge values and the truth is what is considered valuable or intelligent varies from culture to culture and no values of intelligence are less important than others.

Insanity

Definition according to Oxford dictionary

1.

i”n a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.

Here is the issue with sanity and why it’s bullshit.

It prevents “Normal” Social interaction

Social interaction according to who?

Many cultures have different social norms values and ideas of respect and Etiquette…

The truth of what is listed here as “Normal” means Eurocentric.

The same with behavior what is appropriate dress or behavior or action can carry from culture to culture

With Insanity you have invented a word to back up illogical Eugenic ideology with Untrue but convincing facts that are carefully worded to be believable.

Lastly on the Construct of “Sanity.”

Sanity is an invention made for the perpetuation of Colonial ideology. It is used on a slap on sticker to devalue any tradition or way that

“Doesn’t make sense.”

Doesn’t make Since according to Eugenics and fake value systems to weaponize the idea of Disability.

There is no perception of reality so different there is no value or benefit in it

[disabledgenius2ereality]

Ok Can we talk honestly about why Media featuring Autistic and 2E geniuses get it wrong;

First; off cut the mad genius stuff

What is that? ^ like do you know why Geniuses can be “Mad.”

Mad is a word your using to describe mental illness ,

mental illness comes from trauma so maybe consider why you feel like siding a mad genius trope maybe because our society exploits and fetishizes disabled geniuses so bad that the majority of 2E geniuses in history died young due to stress related disorders

Suicide,Addiction,ED,Heart Attack Strokes.

Don’t use our work after we die and pretend you cared about any of us when we were alive

Don’t

Secondly being disabled and a genius comes with staggered IQ our IQ can’t be properly measured for this reason….

(You can’t measure intelligence anyway it doesn’t have weight.)

The problem with Disabled and specifically Autistic Geniuses in media is as follows

This is a cute painting of a much more harsh and Brutal reality.

We live in a world we’re you take al you can from us and throw our peers with IDD aside like they have nothing to teach you as well.

Being Raised Disabled and being perceived as a genius or as high functioning comes with feelings of;

Extreme Guilt

You shoved our peers in Asylums and Murdered them for a fictional made up number. One we just so happens to benefit from.

Those peers are people we grew up with, our classmates, our family members,our ancestors and those who came and walked before us.

You to this day have them buried with numbers instead of names … some places have Disabled graves marked Specimens. Our ancestors many of whom who survived Asylums are still very much ALIVE < they have to live with the Trauma of surviving. They have to live with the knowledge you buried their friends as numbers.

You forced Thier families to put them there with lies and lawsuits.

It was illegal for us to go out in public until 1974!!!

We didn’t get any kind of rights in the US until 1990…

100 years of female vote my ass.

Yet you benefit from Disabled people’s inventions and innovation Daily you don’t need to profit off us and weaponize our pain against our peers too you’ve done enough.

Looking at specifically Sheldon Cooper one of the most Fetishized characters on TV …. Who is portrayed as having no emotions when too many of us have too many..

[xunyi1984]

Genius "sage syndrome" and brain compensation/compensation patterns in groups such as autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia

Why do some people with mild autism and bipolar disorder tend to achieve success in professional fields (such as literary creation, scientific research, music, painting, mathematics and spatial ability)? Why do these people have the manifestation of “scholar syndrome”? Representative figures include Haizi, Van Gogh, Edison, Einstein, Hemingway, etc. The speculation about the connection between…

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[lordgreenslimemold]

i always have people I'm close to tell me that I have the potential to make it big if I want to

as i always dip my toes in just a little bit trying to do this and that, electronic music, occasional self indulgent fanart, but I just had the revelation after no sleep and a fair amount of weed that if I really set my mind to it I could make incredible projects

I think a lot of us have that kind of potential but we never follow through completely because of the state of society or lack of faith in ourselves

[nreckage]

[annalalaith]

Over Stimulation

So, I was recently scrolling through my Facebook page and saw that Autistic Genius had put up a new video. The subject being over stimulation. Now, for many who don’t know what it’s like it can be hard understand. At least I think it is hard for most people to understand. I don’t really know. What I can tell you, is that it sucks. It’s like having all the noise in an area crashing against each other in your brain, and you can hear EVERYTHING!!! And there is no way to get away from it. This is why most people see me with earphones on- I play music to even out the noise level. You will notice though, that I do take them off to speak with other people.  Anyway, I am writing this post so I can share with you guys this video which is amazing! It explains what is going on perfectly. I also want to share a recent experience I have had with over stimulation.

So, first things first, watch the video all the way through.

Secondly, I would like to tell you about a recent experience with this subject. It isn’t something that happens all the time for me, but it is something that happens often. I don’t have the all the filters to block out all the noise, but some days it is worse than others. I also, have a problem with smells, especially oranges in class. I love oranges, but come on guys, can’t you eat them outside of class those things are distracting! Anyway, this experience happened while I was hanging out with my buddy Lina. She’s awesome, by the way. I love her. Anyway, we had just gotten out of a movie, Zootopia, and decided to go to the Olive Garden for dinner. It was freaking busy! It was like the loudest place I have been in a long time. I mean I can go to the club, but I think the music kind of helped to even out the opposing noise.  Anyway, early on I noticed that I was getting over stimulated and it was getting to a point where overload was gonna happen. Of course there were like four parties with birthdays, which meant that the entire damn staff had to sing to them separately, all the while everyone was taking. So, I did the best thing I could, I covered my ears and put my head down. I’m 32, for those that don’t know, a full grown woman doing this looks odd, and our waiter noticed.  And as a good waiter, he asked if I was okay. Now, I had two options; tell him all about autism, and my life’s story, or just let him know that it was a sensory thing and it wasn’t their fault. I chose the latter, I didn’t feel that my diagnosis would have helped anything, and I kinda wanted him to go away. And you know what? Lina thanked me. She was glad I didn’t go into all of the reasons for my reaction. And my use of my hands, because I didn’t have earphones, helped me avoid a total breakdown, which would have been way more embarrassing.

Anyway, this is almost a daily thing for me. This is the reason I don’t go to casinos, and this is why I have trouble some days at work or school. I know it probably doesn’t make any sense to those not dealing with sensory issues, but I hope this helped to explain it.